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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 92 (part 2)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] ] Grant empowering Kiliaen Rensselaer to bequeath and dispose, by last will and testament, of his property situate in New Netherland. Folio 140. The States General of the United Netherlands. To all who shall see these or hear them read, Health. Be it Known, that on the humble petition of Kiliaen van Rensselaer, Patroon of his Colonie named Rensselaers-wyck, situate on the North river of New Netherland, within the limits of the General Incorporated West India Company of this country, and having referred to the o'"" Article of the Freedoms, granted by the Assembly of the XIX., of said Company, to all those who shall plant any Colonies in New Netherland aforesaid.